Time Machine Software

Discussion in 'backup, imaging & disk mgmt' started by Nekromantik, Jun 5, 2011.

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  1. Nekromantik

    Nekromantik Registered Member

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  2. andyman35

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    If you mean Ocster? it and Todo are different types of program.

    Whereas Ocster is a file & data backup utility,Todo is a full imaging application.As such I'd expect Ocster to be a lot quicker for the most part compared to a full image creation;however snapshots of the current state should take only seconds.Unfortunately there's no trial period for the Todo Pro version with the snapshot function so I don't know how fast it is.

    I did grab a free licence for Ocster the other week and while it's quite basic,it was pretty efficient.
     
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  3. Nekromantik

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    Yeah sorry meant Ocster.

    I thought with ToDo you can also use it just to backup selected files instead of a whole drive partition like IFW?
     
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    Yes you're right it can do file level backups.I never paid it any attention since I use Fab's AutoBackup for that particular task.

    I'll try and do a comparison test over the next day or 2,I didn't risk installing Todo on my main system due to already running CTM.I'll stick them both on a stock system as I'm interested how they compare myself.
     
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    Im just doing a 150GB file backup using ToDo atm onto a external usb 2.0 drive.
    Lets see how long it takes
     
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    Hello Hugger, I hope you still follow this thread as I really don't understand why you couldn't "revert to an image" you mean restore an image? Licensing problems will only stop the installed application from functioning and specifically performing automatic incremental backups and hot backups (within Windows).

    Once you create the recovery CD, you can uninstall (optional) the program completely and use the CD to backup and restore. Whether your activation is valid or not, using the CD is completely independent from license validation. Incidentally ShadowProtect isn't installed on any of the machines I use it on, as I'm only doing "cold images" that is using the recovery CD.

    If I missed something from your post, please let me know, as it is not normal what happened to you.
     
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